"Don White" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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As a matter of interest, do all US boats have boarding/bathing
ladders?

In the nice warm Mediterranean, most boats do. Easily the best
and quickest aid to getting someone aboard in most
circumstances.

In the cold waters of UK, they're rare. Perverse? 'Blow up that
dinghy - Fast!'

JimB




In Canada a re-boarding device is a requirement on boats 6
metres or over with a freeboard in excess of .5 metre.
http://boating.ncf.ca/equipment.html


Interesting. But in my opinion the reboarding device has to be
permanently mounted in such a way that a person in the water (as -
falling into the sea while boarding, a common event, even at the
dockside) can immediately swim round to it, drop the ladder and
climb back aboard.

JimB


Yup!
That's why I installed a four rung ss boarding ladder on my transom last
year. I'll keep the little hook model that came with the boat for 'over
the side' boarding in rough seas.

A PO of my boat did go over the side and couldn't get back aboard until
someone came by and helped him out of the water. The boat has an outboard
rudder, so he installed a step on it and another on the ransom. I have never
tried it in rough water, but again if it is that rough, I stay in the
pilothouse if at all possible.

Leanne